Improvement in hay-racks



S. BROWNELL.

Hay Rack.

Patented. Sept. 22,1868.

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Letters Patent No. 82,288, dated September 22,1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAY-RACKS.

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Be it known that I, STEPHEN BROWNELL, of Irving, in the county of Chautauqua, and State of New York, have invented a certain newand useful Improvementin Portable Hay-Racks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this'specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improved rack.

Figure 2, a cross-section.

' Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures. -My invention consists of a hay-rack, composed of separate and detached pieces, built up or laid one ove another, and connected simply by pins, which form also stakes to hold the hay; the whole so arranged-that the iron straps, bolts, nuts, and other connections usually employed, are avoided.

. The rack is composed of the ordinary parts, consisting of the longitudinal bed-plates A A, resting on the bolsters, angular cross-pieces B B B, side-rail C C, and centre-board D. Each of these parts is separate and distinct in itself, and these parts areconnected together by simplybuilding up one over another, and fastened by means of upright pins, a a and b 6, which project sufliciently to form stakes to hold the hay.

The pins a aare made fast to and form a part of a the bed-plates A A, and the cross-piecesB B B, with suitable holes therein, slip over them. i The pins 6 I2, in turn, are made fast to and form a part of the crosspieces BB B, and the'side-rails C G slip over them in a similar manner. The whole'are thus successively united together, forming the entire rack.

By this special construction I gain several important advantages:

'First, I avoid the employment of iron straps, bolts, bars, and nuts to connect the joints, such as are used in all other hay-racks, so far as I am acquainted with them. This is not only a great saving of expense, but the connection is just as strong.

Second, the rack is put together and taken apart, one piece after another, by lifting on or taking off. Thus a boy can apply or remove. In the old style, the whole rack must be applied or removed at once,.or else the bolts and straps, forming the connections, must be first removed, which is a laborious operation.

Third, the loose connection of the joints thus formed gives a degree of flexibility or play to the whole fabric that is of great benefit in use. The ordinary connections are so stifi' and unyielding as to allow scarcely any, freedom of motion.

Fourth, the pins serve the double purpose of connections or fastenings to the parts and stakes to hold the load in place. a v I i What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the separate bed-plates A, with projecting pins a a secured thereto, separate angular cross-pieces B B, with projecting pins 6 b secured thereto, separate side-rails G, and separate centre-board D,

the parts being built up one over another, and connected together, and adapted to operate as herein represented and described.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto signed my name, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

S. BROWNELL.

Witnesses J. R. DRAKE, ALBERT HAIGHT. 

